Sentence examples for almost excused from inspiring English sources

When Will Schofield went off the ground mid-way through the final quarter, you'd have almost excused an Eagles collapse.

He almost excuses his new-found tranquillity.

Cap the meal with a sublime treacle pudding and you could almost excuse the kitchen's blunders.

Much of the time this is fairly entertaining, with a nice sense of the ridiculous that almost excuses its occasional lapses of taste.

If it were not for the double standard, one could almost excuse their ignorance.Dennis Bogusz New York* SIR – The tea-party movement did not spring from "an alliance of ordinary people who are spooked by the huge amount of debt that is being racked up on Mr Obama's watch".

The most memorable line, the one that earned the speech its name, found Cosby almost excusing the violence perpetrated on black people by the police when he said: "People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake!

The actor received long and noisy adulation from the audience for achieving the simple task of walking on stage, deepening my detestation (which I've written about before) for the American habit of giving an "entry round" to star performers (even if, on this occasion, I could almost excuse it because of the sheer improbability of such a recognisable screen actor being "live" before our eyes).

The Renaissance of the media world an event which almost excuses our archaisms in the digital age has been a long and difficult labor: Big groups have seen their newspapers and magazines lose readers and advertising to the Internet and their music businesses suffer piracy and falling sales.

You could almost excuse the Flex if LG had gone all the way and created a holistic curved device, a phone whose functions matched and/or exploited the Flex's curves.

Could this explain the almost excuse of the own results, see last paragraph in the paper, and the scientifically unfounded criticism of our studies by the Interphone study authors?

JOHANNESBURG — Simon Poulsen can almost be excused for falling asleep on the job.